On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 21:37 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 09:25:46PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 17:56 -0700, Hex Star wrote: > > > > > > Where did the word wow come from? Who invented it? > > > > http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wow > > > > See the Wikimedia Foundation for all the information you'll ever need. > > Especially useful are the Wikipedia and Wiktionary. > > See more information about it here: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia > > > > Heh, heh... The subject is getting rather long! :) > > > > I hate to throw fuel on the fire, but I just have to chime in on this > one. Wikipedia is only a good source of info for what I like to call > "geek fare." That is, if you want information on physics, chemistry, > astronomy, computer science, programming, games, mathematics, > cryptography, television programs and movies, and so on everything is > fine. If you are looking for information on politics, international > issues/relations, religion or religious issues, life sciences, > basically, anything that is the subject of any significant amount of > controversy, Wikipedia falls apart quite badly. That is not to say that > all of it is garbage, just that even the self-declared NPOV stance is > not sufficient.
Yes, I suppose you're right. I'm generally only interested in the "geek fare", though, so I'm happy. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]